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Illuminating Connecticut’s Past: The Bradley & Hubbard Legacy

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Electric Boat: From Innovation Trials to WWII Submarine Leadership

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Army-Navy “E” Award Honors Connecticut for Support Against the Axis Powers

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Sophia Woodhouse Welles: Wethersfield’s World-Famous Bonnet Maker

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Beatrice Fox Auerbach: Retail Pioneer Led Iconic Family Department Store

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The Connecticut Valley Authority That Never Was

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The Aqua Velva State – Today in History: November 17

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The Battle for Cockenoe Island

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Any Month with an “R” in It: Eating Oysters in Connecticut

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Seth Thomas Works Around the Clock in Wolcott

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New Haven: What Was Everyday Life Like During the Civil War?

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Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Company Puts Best Foot Forward

Portland Improves the Steam Engine

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Avon Industry: From Underground to Outerspace

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The Wallingford Oneida Community

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Connecticut’s Mulberry Craze

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Halladay’s Revolutionary Windmill – Today in History: August 29

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Nicholas Grillo and his Thornless Rose

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Oystering in Connecticut, from Colonial Times to the 21st Century

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The Great River: Connecticut’s Main Stream

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Savin Rock Park: “Connecticut’s Coney Island”

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Intertwining Family Businesses

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Steam Railroads Transform Connecticut Travel and Commerce

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Branford’s History Is Set in Stone

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East Haven’s Revolutionary Salt Works

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North Branford Vied for the Title of “Shredded Coconut Capital of the World” – Who Knew?

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New England’s Grand Ambition: The Farmington Canal

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A Revolution On Two Wheels: Columbia Bicycles

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Horseshoe Nail Capital of the World – Who Knew?

Furniture Caster Patented – Today in History: June 30

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Instruction by Mail: The Famous Artists School

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Christopher Leffingwell Born – Today in History: June 11

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Albert Pope Pioneered Bicycles for Women

Jacob Schick Invents the Electric Razor – Today in History: May 13

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The Newsies Strike Back

Take Me to the Fair: Connecticut Exhibits at the International Expositions

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Borough of Stonington

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Hamilton Wrecks Aeroplane – Today in History: April 22

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The Coaster Brake – Today in History: April 9

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Let There Be Light: An Early History of the Hartford Electric Light Company

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Hartford’s Fuller Brush Company Goes Door-to-Door Across US

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A Candy Bar Empire in Naugatuck

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: Connecticut Lessons from a Tragedy

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Connecticut’s First Municipal Electric Utility

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Waterbury’s Radium Girls

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Early 19th-Century Immigration in Connecticut

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Munitions Assembly Line 1943

John H. Trumbull: Connecticut’s “Flying Governor”

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Today in History – Fales & Gray Explosion Underscores Need for a Hartford Hospital

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A Good Spot and a Healthy Place: A Short History of Charles Island

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North and South: The Legacy of Eli Whitney

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Colt Armory Burns – Today in History: February 4

Six Cities Respond to 1902 Waterbury Fire – Who Knew?

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First Commercial Telephone Exchange – Today in History: January 28

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The Industrial Revolution Comes to Jewett City

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An Uncommonly Ingenious Mechanic: Abel Buell of Connecticut

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Connecticut Arms the Union

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Meriden’s Silver Lining

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Windsor Tobacco: Made in the Shade

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Samuel Colt…and Sewing Machines?

Noble Jerome’s Clock Patent Model

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The Colt Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company

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Phineas Pratt’s Machine for Making Combs – Today in History: April 12

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Pepperidge Farm: Healthful Bread Builds a Business

The Bazooka Changes War – Today in History: June 14

An Orderly & Decent Government: A Society in Ferment, 1819-1865

An Orderly & Decent Government: Significant Events & Developments, 1819-1865

An Orderly & Decent Government: Significant Events & Developments, 1776-1818

An Orderly & Decent Government: Searching for the Common Good, 1866-1887

An Orderly & Decent Government: Significant Events & Developments, 1866-1887

An Orderly & Decent Government: The Rise of the Factory, 1866-1887

Reel Lawn Mower Patent – Today in History: January 28

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Government Orders Horse Pistols – Today in History: March 9

Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: American Clock & Watch Museum

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Nathan Starr’s Cutlass Fought the War of 1812

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A Bird’s-eye View of Bridgeport

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Understanding the Environmental Effects of Industry by Examining the Starr Mill

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Video – Martha Parsons Tribute Film

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The Hartford Courant: The Oldest US Newspaper in Continuous Publication

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Windsor Engineers Success

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Products from New Britain’s Past

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Charles Goodyear and the Vulcanization of Rubber

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A Bird’s-eye View of Moosup

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Textile Mills in Oxford Dominated Early Industry

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American Chairs, Made in Connecticut

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Video: The Story of the Salisbury Iron District

A Shipping and Railroad Magnate Remembers His Connecticut Roots

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One Powerful Family in Bozrah

Stanley Works for New Britain

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When Milk Powered Watertown’s Industry

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When Bozrah Provided Comfort to the Nation

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The Effects of “Redlining” on the Hartford Metropolitan Region

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When the World Ran on Connecticut Time

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Workers at the Colt Armory, Hartford 1867

The Yankee Peddler 1850

Crew of the Whaling Schooner Margaret 1907

Shade Grown Tobacco, Windsor 1965

Workers at the Eli Terry Clock Factory 1850

James G. Batterson, Stone Contractor

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Armstrong Finds a Niche in the Tire Market

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Philip Corbin: Manufacturing A Legacy for New Britain

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Naugatuck’s Early Chemical Industry

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The League of American Wheelmen and Hartford’s Albert Pope Champion the Good Roads Movement

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Southington Industry: From Nuts to Bolts

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A Pioneering Connecticut Firearm

Norwich in Perspective

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The Answer Is Risom!

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Rock-Solid Industry in 19th-Century Bolton

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Stepping Back in Time: North Stonington Village Historic District

Bird’s-eye Views of Rockville Chart Textile Industry’s Growth

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Bird’s-eye Views of Winsted

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North Stonington: Shunock River and Local Ambitions Powered a 19th-century Mill Town

A Bird’s-eye View of East Haddam

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